Every Time The Bachelor Producers Trolled Us All

Every Time The Bachelor Producers Trolled Us All

The producers of The Bachelor are enough to give you trust issues. Mike Fleiss, creator and executive producer of the franchise, loves to tease audiences on Twitter about "big announcements" — and then fall through just as we expect something big to happen. The same goes for Elan Gale, an executive producer on the series and a nascent social media celebrity.

And here we are. It's the end of the week, and so far no announcement has been made. (ABC declined to comment on Fleiss's latest Twitter antics.) Later, Fleiss added jokingly that we should "sit" by for "truly shocking news."

Unfortunately, this commonplace for The Bachelor producers. They are the masters of misdirection, both during the The Bachelor itself and on social media. The show itself will advertise a "shocking" moment that usually turns out to be banal. Then, on social media, the producers will get coy about "announcements" that turn out to be equally banal — or not announcements at all. Here are all the time we've been burned by the producers of The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and Bachelor in Paradise.

Peter Kraus had just broken up with Rachel Lindsay. But he seemed regretful. Would he turn around and change his mind about his feelings for Lindsay on After the Finale Rose? That's what Harrison seemed to imply.

"Do we really want a Bachelor who isn't ready to settle down with a woman he loves? Hmmm. Not what #thebachelor is all about...." he wrote. Naturally, everyone thought it was about Peter Kraus, the man who couldn't commit on The Bachelorette.